, 1887-04-14


to never lack for new idea, and he has q
vocabulary equal To Worcester and Web
ster boiled down and filtered through Car
Iyle's "Sartor Resartus~
His private conversation IS as full Of maa.
as his senatorial speeches, ard when h. tall.
every sentence makes You think. and every
word weighs a pound. He isa man Of broad
reading, and he draws his illustrations from
the antediluvian periods OF geology in on.
sentence and III the next takes a metaphor
from the classics OF the English novelist He
seems to have the knowledge of the coDgrcs-
sionaI library ct his command, and in his
brightest speeches he make remarks which
show YOU that lie lives ia Close sympathy
with the world and that he understands the
thoughts of Ihe man who is dri ring bob-tGE
car as well as of him who measures the dis
talice from star to star or pirates about the
ethics of the Buddhists.
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The London papers call him narrow minded,
but he Is ON. of the Broadest minded states
men know Of, and he is, taken altogether,
one of the queerest combinations ever bound
ND within human skin He is 4 gentleman
aS regards his dress and manners. He GDes
rot believe in that phase of political dama-
gogry viii Ia prohibits the statesman from
wearing dress coat. which makes him 20
about Washington like sloveH, and which
lends him to look a5 all appropriations through
the wrong end of the opera glass. ingalls, Is
one of the best dressed men in Washington.
His clothes fit him like glove, and his linen
looks as though he owned a Chinese laundry.
lie is tall, thin AMI tightly made. He stands
a. straight as a Lake Superior oak, and line
drop,,ed from his well conibed iron gray bead
would touch the heels of his polished boots.
He wears a black diagonal coat, which !, al
ways tightly buttoned around his long, thin
frame, and out of the breast pocket O.
which invariably peeps q six hand
j,.-rl,' of the BRIGHTEST cc'-~- T.
wears gold sPectacles and god -
glasses, and there is a pair Of go!i ci.r.ls-
usually hanging upon his clest, or r'a,-.ray
yellow circle in froat of him as Ing.Li uer
vousy whirls them about Hhile be listens {
the speeches of MS brother senators. Sg!igtsT
ingalls, IS, | should say, six feet tail, ana l.
never maintains anything else than an Gro.
position Even sitting he has his sbou !c.
well thrown back and his chest oHr, snG j.
never iuubIes himself up like q Low. ~ do
Senator Evarts, H0r :irs upon IFS zr3iEn, @
Senator EdiGunds. IL las a ,a....ss I..E p.
1t is long and thin, sud it always lu.., H.
think of the portrait OF john Raniy. ..-, @
Roanoke, which hangs in the CoIcn.Gu pal
lery. The contours Of the heads Of Randolph
and Ingalls, are the same, aud the men a.,
aiike la many points OF clslr;'cieF- lugHiiI >.
however, broader man tl.an WAS Rand .r,h.
and be is free from that phase OF iusa,..ty
which entered 50 largely into Rui!ulpi'.
actions Senator Ingalls, has a high forehead
which rather recedas TO the point where l.
thick iron gray hair begins. His sharp. irl.ua
eyes look out from under marrow brows. III.
cheek bones are high and ths lines which
mark them are very plain. His completion
is rather sssllow, ard lie wears hst!a i-ou
gray mustache and goaoee below his s5Taiairt
thin nose. He speaks in clear, ara .l3ir
voice, which Is tinged with the nasal tSau.
betraying his Yankee origin. he never rant
during his speeches and h. never loss ii,
head. He does not tall; TO the gallery AMI ..f
the galleries always listen when be sfsals.
He Is the most sarcastic Of the United S,....~
senators, and there i no senator who isu.oa.
feared upon the Goor. InSalls knows TIA
weak points of every one Of his brothers. sn.
his brother senators know that He viii I-ct
shrink from exposing them if t,e occasion
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